From out of nowhere, new enhanced versions(!) of Thief 2 and System Shock 2

[Excommunicator]

Once this is all packaged and tested I guess will be a good time to get into some individual thief fan missions

Who knows of a good repository for all the best missions/mods? Or a pre-packaged collection if there is such a thing?

 

[Infinitron]

Once this is all packaged and tested I guess will be a good time to get into some individual thief fan missions

Who knows of a good repository for all the best missions/mods? Or a pre-packaged collection if there is such a thing?

Doesn't get any simpler than this: http://thiefmissions.com/

 

[Jaesun]

Fucking Seriously. 2012 THE YEAR OF FUCKING INCLINE! This is SO fucking awesome <3 <3 <3

 

[potatojohn]

It would be better if someone made a thiaf compatibility layer for TDK. But hey the morans at TTLG prefer to reverse engineer than use an OSS engine that's their right I guess.

 

[garren]

Just tried the demos, all I say, fucking amazing. Everything just works. Game seems to look a bit better too.

 

[Trash]

Yeah, I'll wait for a SS2 replay untill the community comes up with an easy way to integrate mods with the patch. I wanna play with the improved weapon and character models. Those textures also look neat.

 

[catfood]

Bros, I've never played the first two Thief games and this seems like the perfect time to do so.

Anything I should know beforehand, or just dive right in?

Just don't forget to play on Expert difficulty. It's the way it was meant to be played.

 

[spekkio]

Thief Gold, now with bloom:

 

[Infinitron]

Yep. You could actually enable bloom in DDFix too, though.

 

[Cosmo]

Other thing to look forward to !
There's a nice texture mod on moddb, for which i'm actually optimistic : everytime i looked at it, it had taken giant steps. It's impressive (especially the greenhouse) and seems to respect Thief 1's artistic choices.

 

[Infinitron]

Other thing to look forward to !
There's a nice texture mod on moddb, for which i'm actually optimistic : everytime i looked at it, it had taken giant steps. It's impressive (especially the greenhouse) and seems to respect Thief 1's artistic choices.

It does look great, but not everybody agrees.

 

[Cosmo]

Well, there seems to be a lot of nitpicking, but messing with texture luminosity is indeed unforgivable on a game like this...
I guess we'll see.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Beautiful. Finally playing Thief 2 in widescreen with functioning videos and proper OpenAL sound. Who the fuck created this mod because I want to donate him 1 Jewro.

 

[Twinkle]

Masturbating and weeping, ladies, masturbating and weeping

http://somethingstrange.com/ttlg/deepcover/

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Yeah I knew about Deep Cover. Too bad those assholes at Eidos had to pull out.

 

[Deakul]

you would need to install additional mods to change models and textures

Only steers and queers use those. Originals are perfectly fine.

At a minimum I highly recommend SHTUP which is simply hi-res versions of the exact same textures from the game: http://www.shtupmod.net/

TBH I play using SHTUP and SADaoB.

Is SADaoB actually compatible with this fix?

 

[spekkio]

ATM? I'm not sure.
"Promo videos" uploaded by the makers of the patch show usage of mods (SHMUP / Rebirth).
Check here:

http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=4128.0

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Thanks to v119 the sound propagation and distance calculation works properly again under Win 7. It's nice if you close a door and hear the muffled sound, and when you open it, it gets clearer.

 

[Deakul]

Well, installed it without any mods and just the fix with ss2tools and it works fine.

Awesome, can't wait to finally beat this game hopefully without shit getting corrupt or hard drives dying.

 

[Infinitron]

Well, installed it without any mods and just the fix with ss2tools and it works fine.

Awesome, can't wait to finally beat this game hopefully without shit getting corrupt or hard drives dying.

According to Kolya, you should DISABLE SS2Tool's own "bug fixes" when installing it.

 

[Gord]

ATM? I'm not sure.
"Promo videos" uploaded by the makers of the patch show usage of mods (SHMUP / Rebirth).

I think that's the old SS2 demo of the first 1 or two levels of the game, but updated to the new version and combined with SS2 Rebirth and texture mods. More than boring videos.

 

[Infinitron]

Question: I've used Creative Alchemy up until now to get 3D sound from these games.

Apparently this is no longer required, yet when I delete dsound.dll and dsound.ini from Thief's directory, I can no longer enable EAX in the game options (but can still enable "hardware audio"). Does that mean it's using OpenAL?

 

[Gord]

Cool thing, just found that the demo has a redone intro cutscene using highish-poly models and better textures.
Is that also some mod floating around or is it another piece of awesome, courtesy of the mysterious benefactor behind that patch?

 

[tuluse]

Question: I've used Creative Alchemy up until now to get 3D sound from these games.

Apparently this is no longer required, yet when I delete dsound.dll and dsound.ini from Thief's directory, I can no longer enable EAX in the game options (but can still enable "hardware audio"). Does that mean it's using OpenAL?

If you click on hardware audio again it will change to oppenal, at least in Thief 1. I'm pretty sure setting it to on doesn't actually work in Win7. When you load a level it reverts to off. I have an Asus Xonar though, which adds more complexity to the situation.

 

[Whisky]

I'd say I know what I'm replaying...

But it comes down to a damn hard choice. Thief series or System Shock 2?

I'll pick Thief. I haven't played it as much and not for a really long time.